Scott Archer Boorman (born February 1, 1949) is a mathematical sociologist at Yale University.
His father, Howard L. Boorman, was a Foreign Service Officer in Beijing, China, and he was born there as Chinese Communists troops entered the city.
He received no formal education before enrolling at Harvard College, and had largely completed work on his book, The Protracted Game, which was published in 1971.
He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University and was appointed to a full professorship at Penn before moving to Yale.
While still a teenager, Boorman wrote The Protracted Game : A Wei-Ch'i Interpretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy[1] (1969), an analysis of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.